Blog: Instrumental Analysis

I think it's pretty safe to assume that pretty much every music writer out there today longs for the opportunity to coin a term for a "new" sub-genre of music when s/he hears it for the first time. Among some of my favorites are psycho-billy and nouveau punk polka. It really doesn't matter if the music is good or not; the opportunity to name it gives us a thrill, plain and simple. I suppose it was my love of these definitions that first attracted me to The Balustrade Ensemble . Steampunk-ambient was the description given by their [...]

• The Balustrade Ensemble - Incarnadine
• The Balustrade Ensemble - The Drowning Calm